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Stealth Strips

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Mackerel

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Has anyone put stealth strips on a shotgun? Does the adhesive hold up to the heat from the barrel? I have a black browning maxus and I’ve been wanting to camo and got to thinking about some stealth strips I have laying around. Any thoughts?
 
Stealth strips leave a nasty goo mess if you remove them. Your shotgun but just know that if you decide to take it off you are in for a miserable cussing for hours trying to get all that off. The vinyl wraps would be better.
 
Stealth strip is definitely a permanent wrap. Of course that is what makes it so good. You shouldn’t have any problem on a gun. It takes significant heat to burn the strip.
 
Squirrels said:
Stealth strips leave a nasty goo mess if you remove them. Your shotgun but just know that if you decide to take it off you are in for a miserable cussing for hours trying to get all that off. The vinyl wraps would be better.
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X100 it’s not permanent like blued steel & you will never forgive yourself if you WHEN you have to redo it down the road!!
 
Squirrels said:
Stealth strips leave a nasty goo mess if you remove them. Your shotgun but just know that if you decide to take it off you are in for a miserable cussing for hours trying to get all that off. The vinyl wraps would be better.
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Vinyl wraps or a roll of camo form. Vinyl is better if you get stuff wet. Camo form is less tedious to apply. But I'd pull my teeth with a pair of channel locks before I stealth stripped a gun.
 
Stealth strips are a nightmare to remove.... I never want to do that again so I probably will never use them again...lol
 
enkriss said:
Stealth strips are a nightmare to remove.... I never want to do that again so I probably will never use them again...lol
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I seem to hear this a lot but only in the saddle hunting community. I’m the total opposite I only use stealth strip because it doesn’t come off. When I put it on something I expect to never have to replace it. My LW sticks are going strong at 8 yrs now. In the past using gorilla tape, camo form, or hockey tape I got max 2 seasons. Now when they fell, peeled, or tore off it was easy to clean & reapply. But cleaning & re-applying every yr doesn’t make since when I can put stealth strip on & be done.
 
If you want to remove later I would recommend Camo Form tape or Vet tape. If you want it on forever and don’t care to remove use Stealth Strips.
 
Cbigbear said:
I seem to hear this a lot but only in the saddle hunting community. I’m the total opposite I only use stealth strip because it doesn’t come off. When I put it on something I expect to never have to replace it. My LW sticks are going strong at 8 yrs now. In the past using gorilla tape, camo form, or hockey tape I got max 2 seasons. Now when they fell, peeled, or tore off it was easy to clean & reapply. But cleaning & re-applying every yr doesn’t make since when I can put stealth strip on & be done.
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I can see stealth strips working fine for straight, smooth surfaces like a stick. And aluminum doesn't react negatively when it gets wet and stays wet. But that fabric on a gun sounds like a complete nightmare.

If I was going to permanently camo a gun, I'd dip it or paint it. If I wasn't sure I wanted it to stay that way and I knew the gun would get wet, I'd buy a $20 vinyl kit like @Squirrels said and spend an evening applying it. If it was a one time deal I'd wrap it in camo form (I do that occasionally with my Citori if she goes duck hunting.)

Not knocking stealth strips at all. I liked the batch I bought much better than the other adhesive backed tape I've used. But I'd hate to see what a hunting gun looked like after being taped up and rained on a time or two.
 
I guess it’s not a matter of will it work..... it absolutely will! But given the alternatives available why that selection. I guess that was my point.
 
Nutterbuster said:
Not knocking stealth strips at all. I liked the batch I bought much better than the other adhesive backed tape I've used. But I'd hate to see what a hunting gun looked like after being taped up and rained on a time or two.
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I was thinking wrapping the stock only. Figured the op was worried about the barrel heat affecting the camo on the stock. A blued barrel would likely be a pitted rusty mess after
getting wet - the stealth strip should hold it together for awhile!!!!
 
After reading everyone’s thoughts and thinking about it, I may just give the rattle can makeup job like I do to my AR’s. I find matching flat earth tone colors from spray paint to my environment (north cakalacky) works much better than any camo pattern I’ve seen available on the market.
 
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